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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) has taken exception with U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R) over his assertion that Senate Democrats shamefully refuse to want to help Venezuelans after they voted down his Temporary Protection Status (TPS) amendment last week.
Moments before boarding Marine One, President Donald Trump spoke to White House reporters assembled outside of the South Portico about Joe Biden and his son’s dealings in Ukraine.
That was a questioned posed by the Washington Post and a question that is on the minds of millions of Americans considering that House Democrats are going all out with an impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
With Communist China deemed a national security threat to the U.S., and with President Trump aggressively cracking down on Chinese companies like communications giants Huawei and ZTE, the push to only buy American and not Chinese, has reached new heights, literally.
President Donald Trump and the RNC have landed another devastating fundraising blow t0 the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are questioning why U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent to promote an art exhibit at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art and Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art that showcases portraits of admitted mass murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
Having been emboldened by the recently initiated impeachment inquiry, House Democrats continue to push their bold, unapologetic, and controversial legislative agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives that included taxpayer-funded abortions.
With congressional Democrats officially launching an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump over his telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky where he is accused of abuse of his power for asking the Ukrainian president to look into the Bidens, Trump is alleging possible corruption by the Bidens with their past dealings with China and Ukraine.
With a House impeachment inquiry looming over his administration, President Donald Trump is countering House Democrats by pointing to their hypocrisy for not investigating Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter over their business dealings in China and Ukraine.
Representative Adam Schiff, House Intelligence Committee Chairman, is being called a hypocrite by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for a phone call where Schiff said he would be willing to accept dirt on Trump. The two-year-old call was a prank by Russian radio hosts Vladimir "Vovan" Kuznetzov and Alexey "Lexus" Stolyarov, who have close ties […]
Appearing Monday morning on CNBC, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) stated that he “would have no choice” but to take up an impeachment resolution, if the House first pass a resolution to impeach Trump and sent it over to the Senate.
Congressional Democrats like Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) have joined the chorus of national Democrats, including 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
12 U.S. senator, including Florida Senator Rick Scott (R), introduced the Dignity for Aborted Children Act after 2,246 aborted babies were found at the home a deceased abortion doctor in Indiana.
It took a new president  and three years for the U.S. government publicly designate Cuban strongman Raul Castro and his family, banning them from ever entering the U.S. for “his involvement in corruption and gross violation of human rights.”
The office of Florida Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL 3rd District) issued an official letter in support of President Trump as the news of impeachment hearings and overreach by "unhinged liberal progressives" continue to dominate the headlines in Washington. The letter, signed by "Team Yoho," applauds Trump's economic success and increased opportunities for Americans. At the same time, […]
Rep. Francis Rooney (R) was the only Republican member of the U.S. Congress to vote in favor of a resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency border security declaration.
Florida Rep. Ted Deutch (D) appears to have found a new opponent to wage political war against, Senator Marco Rubio (R) Early this week, Rep. Deutch challenged Sen. Rubio to tell Americans where he stood on impeaching President Trump after the transcript of the Trump/Zelensky phone call was released.
In the latest Qunnipiac poll, dated between September 19 and the 23rd, shows Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) has a slight edge over former Vice President Joe Biden for the first time in the bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Warren now has 27 percent of the vote of Democratic voters and independent voters […]
